1920s Quote by P.G. Wodehouse Download Open image ““Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie-- with knobs on!”” — P.G. Wodehouse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1920s Humor
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“Love, Miss Halliday, is a delicate plant. It needs tending, nurturing, assiduous fostering. This cannot be done by throwing the breakfast bacon at a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“In these days in which we live, when existence has become a thing of infinite complexity and fate, if it slips us a bit… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don’t know?’ ‘I couldn’t say, sir.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
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“He will lunch with you at your flat tomorrow at one-thirty. Please remember that he drinks no wine, strongly disapproves of smoking, and can… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Too often on such occasions one feels, as I feel so strongly with regard to poor old Stilton, that the kindly thing to do… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“My late Uncle Henry, you see, was by way of being the blot on the Wooster escutcheon. An extremely decent chappie personally, and one… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“...he switched on the [flashlight]. When he did so, he instantly became the center attraction to a rowdy mob of those gnats, moths, and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
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“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
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The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period.… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
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I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many South American… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
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